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mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:39:49 +0000 (21:39 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:29:55 +0000 (14:29 -0700)
commite466d3b572bf868fe9a5d9688d8d2ec19cddb46f
tree08a0f0f244adaa52f72f11bc95d7a31e5b4f8bbc
parentd7a0289987f9fda051854f5201d77f4ce7095036
mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG

commit a3e8cc643d22d2c8ed36b9be7d9c9ca21efcf7f7 upstream.

Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching
a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE).  That path is under mutex, and
cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range().

Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling
should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one
way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the
virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr.

But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or
converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count
to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation.

We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG,
but it is a fix that's worth making anyway.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/mremap.c